Author: William N. Fenton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806122946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780585165530
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625643
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Most of the material in this book appeared in the "New Yorker" in somewhat different form.

Author: Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312858574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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The archaeologists/authors continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home.

Author: Welwyn Wilton Katz
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613889360
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Thirteen-year-old Laney and fourteen-year-old Tom form an uneasy alliance after finding rare Indian false face masks and realizing their terrifying power.

Author: Michael Bastine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591439442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Brings the paranormal beings and places of the Iroquois folklore tradition to life through historic and contemporary accounts of otherworldly encounters • Recounts stories of shapeshifting witches, giant flying heads, enchanted masks, ethereal lights, talking animals, Little People, spirit-choirs, potent curses, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields • Includes accounts of miraculous healings by shamans and medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams • Shows how these traditions can help one see the richness of the world and help those who have lost the chants of their own ancestors With a rich history reaching back more than one thousand years, the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy--the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora--are considered to be the most avid storytellers on earth with a collection of tales so vast it would dwarf those of any other society. Covering nearly the whole of New York State from the Hudson and Mohawk River Valleys westward across the Finger Lakes region to Niagara Falls and Salamanca, this mystical culture’s supernatural tradition is the psychic bedrock of the Northeast, yet their treasury of tales and beliefs is largely unknown and their most powerful sacred sites unrecognized. Assembling the lore and beliefs of this guarded spiritual legacy, Michael Bastine and Mason Winfield share the stories they have collected of both historic and contemporary encounters with beings and places of Iroquois legend: shapeshifting witches, strange forest creatures, ethereal lights, vampire zombies, cursed areas, dark magicians, talking animals, enchanted masks, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields as well as accounts of miraculous healings by medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams. Grounding their tales with a history of the Haundenosaunee, the People of the Long House, the authors show how the supernatural beings, places, and customs of the Iroquois live on in contemporary paranormal experience, still surfacing as startling and sometimes inspiring reports of otherworldly creatures, haunted sites, after-death messages, and mystical visions. Providing a link with America’s oldest spiritual roots, these stories help us more deeply know the nature and super-nature around us as well as offer spiritual insights for those who can no longer hear the chants of their own ancestors.

Author: William Nelson Fenton
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120393
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: William Nelson Fenton
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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The Great Law, a living tradition among the conservative Iroquois, is sustained by celebrating the condolence ceremony when they mourn a dead chief and install his successor for life on good behavior. This ritual act, reaching back to the dawn of history, maintains the League of the Iroquois, the legendary form of government that gave way over time to the Iroquois Confederacy. Fenton verifies historical accounts from his own long experience of Iroquois society, so that his political ethnography extends into the twentieth century as he considers in detail the relationship between customs and events. His main argument is the remarkable continuity of Iroquois political tradition in the face of military defeat, depopulation, territorial loss, and acculturation to European technology.

Author: William S. Lyon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393317350
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Designed for ease of use with maps, a detailed subject index, an extensive bibliography, and cross references, this book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in Native American culture and heritage.

Author: Elisabeth Tooker
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The Midwinter ceremonial—the longest and most complex of the rituals of the Longhouse religion—is examined here in three parts. Following a short cultural history of the Iroquois and a description of the present geographical location of the various longhouses and tribes, Elisabeth Tooker discusses the principles of Iroquois ritualism. The second part of the book is devoted to detailed accounts of the Midwinter ceremonial as it is performed today at six Iroquois longhouses. The third part presents the historical perspective of the ceremony through excerpts from writings of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries, captives, travelers, local residents, and anthropologists.